please check mplayer 0.90-3
hi everybody mplayer 0.90-3 is in deb http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer ./ and was uploaded to the incoming dir of Debian. So please review the package and tell me (and the ftp-installer(s)) if this may be fit for Debian and thanks for the time --changes in 0.90-3: the description clearly states that the .tar.gz is different from the upstream is now properly linked with directfb8 --changes in 0.90-2: --CSS-- it does not contain CSS code now it uses libdvdread for reading DVDs, that will in turn dl-open libdvdcss (for people brave enought to install it by using the convenient script in libdvdread itself ;-) ) --FFMpeg-- subdir 'libavcodec' is from FFMpeg I have read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=199266 and someone says that source code may be distributed, while binaries that implement _encoding_ may be a problem the binary package of mplayer 0.90-2 does not contain the 'mencoder' (since 'lame' is not in Debian, it would be quite useless...) it seems also that, up to today, the patents in FFMPeg were never enforced on binaries that just do _decoding_ (and actually, binary codecs for decoding are freely downloadable from the author companies themselves) the doc files were modified as suggested by Adam Warner it is now packaged as a Debian-native, that is, w/o diff, since I have deleted much code from the upstream tarball a. -- Andrea Mennucc E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa! (Tonino Carotone) pgpZwkWyRypu3.pgp Description: PGP signature
plz check mplayer 0.90-2
ok mplayer 0.90-2 is in deb http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer ./ changes: --CSS-- it does not contain CSS code now it uses libdvdread for reading DVDs, that will in turn dl-open libdvdcss (for people brave enought to install it by using the convenient script in libdvdread itself ;-) ) --FFMpeg-- subdir 'libavcodec' is from FFMpeg I have read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=199266 and someone says that source code may be distributed, while binaries that implement _encoding_ may be a problem the binary package of mplayer 0.90-2 does not contain the 'mencoder' (since 'lame' is not in Debian, it would be quite useless...) it seems also that, up to today, the patents in FFMPeg were never enforced on binaries that just do _decoding_ (and actually, binary codecs for decoding are freely downloadable from the author companies themselves) the doc files were modified as suggested by Adam Warner it is now packaged as a Debian-native, that is, w/o diff, since I have deleted much code from the upstream tarball I am also considering the idea of calling the package 'mplayer-' to stress the fact that it is a lesser version than the upstream so please review the package and tell me if this may be fit for Debian (and thanks for the time) a. -- Andrea Mennucc E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa! (Tonino Carotone) pgpvzUan2H3Oj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mplayer licenses
sorry last time there was a discussion, it was mainly on licenses and copyrights, and I was so focused on them that I didn't think of the CSS code I will prepare and test an 'mplayer' without the above code (a la xine) and come back soon On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:56:50PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: It has been pointed out on debian-devel that your mplayer package includes DVD Content Scrambling System decoding!: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200307/msg01827.html (Refer libmpdvdkit2/*css*) I hope you understand how serious this is and how many problems you would have caused Debian by having this accepted for distribution. Please get up to speed on such issues and take a look at how xine-ui is packaged. Regards, Adam -- Andrea Mennucc E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa! (Tonino Carotone) pgp9SAKOAloba.pgp Description: PGP signature
mplayer licenses
hi this is a call for help we have done quite a lot of work on mplayer, to check for licenses and copyrights would someone please download the source of mplayer 0.90 from http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer and re-check it, and state if it can go in Debian or not? a. -- Andrea Mennucc E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa! (Tonino Carotone) pgpwvZdUjfdm0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mplayer licenses
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:29:13AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:21:25 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A Mennucc1) wrote: this is a call for help we have done quite a lot of work on mplayer, to check for licenses and copyrights Who is we, and who is calling for help? me, (I am a Debian Developer) and Dariush Pietrzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] (he is in the New Mantainer process) a. -- Andrea Mennucc E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa! (Tonino Carotone) pgpM775qkudpq.pgp Description: PGP signature
[Olga.Caprotti@risc.uni-linz.ac.at: Research Institute for Applications of Computer Algebra: Licenses]
hi I recently got interested in the openmath project www.openmath.org I was talking with a researcher from the RISC institute and she told me they are licensing the Java library for openmath as opensource, but she wanted to be sure if the license is opensource I have read it, but my english fails me when it says: 2.1 subject to third party intellectual property claims: (a) under intellectual property rights (other than patent or trademark) Licensable by Initial Developer to use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense and distribute the Original Code (or portions thereof) with or without Modifications, and/or as part of a Larger Work; and... I am not sure of what it means to say under intellectual property can you give a look? it is in http://crystal.win.tue.nl/license/rpl.html if it is DSFG compliant , I may package it in the near future a. -- A Mennucc ? un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa! (Renato Carotone)
Re: ffmpeg + mplayer
hi
I have been also discussing with Darius Pietrzak
(and thru him with the mplayer developers) about uploading mplayer into
debian. Note that Darius Pietrzak is not a mantainer afaik.
mplayer is already packaged by D.P., the standard way,
but this is not what we want: we want a thing that automatically
compiles on the user machine, to have the best in speed
(until runtime CPU detection is fully ok). We also discussed many ideas,
as : having an mplayer-common and some mplayer-pentium-3 mplayer-athlon...
binaries already available, and an mplayer wrapper script who
chooses the best available binary and complains if it does not fit
well to the CPU.
but first and foremost we have two problems with license of mplayer:
1) the mplayer people forbid the ditribution of binaries and
this is incompatible with GPL, which they claim to abide
2) opendivx is not gpl , we need to rip it off and use ffmpeg
I am anyway pursuing this task of having mplayer in debian :
I did many tests this summer on aviplay, xmps, etc etc, and
mplayer was by far the best (in reliability, speed, and # of codecs
supported)
more comments on
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:16:54PM +0200, P?sztor Gy?rgy wrote:
Hi,
(1st sorry, for the crosspost)
I look the mplayer project, and the ffmpeg.
I think this can be legalize, if the mplayer use the GPL-ed ffmpeg-s
codec. But it link statically with it, etc, etc...
I didn't see ffmpeg in debian, and mplayer's maintainership isn't celar
for me: Who is the official maintainer of the mplayer?
no one. mplayer is not in debian, yet , afaik
After many talk with the mplayer author team, they welcome my idea:
Do an mplayer-src package which build on the users machine, like the pine,
or the qmail with an build-{mplayer,pine,qmail,etc} command.
They work on the runtime cpu detection method, but it isn't done yet.
I think, this would be the only solution, that they like, and also keep
mplayer, as fast as can be.
The other thing: to legalize it: I think the only way to it, to use the
ffmpeg's libavcodec.
I would maintain it, but I didn't see it anywhere in the debian, and I
don't want to do my fault again, (ITP a package, which is already
debianized)
But I think It could be done, if the ffmpeg's maintainer, and the
mplayer's maintainer is the same person.
Mplayer's author welcome, to put my debian/ into the source tre, but I
want to ask it from the current maintainer, and I don't want to take over
the maintainer ship without any word.
The current debian/control record contains Darius Pietrzak ..., and an
ITP is in the wnpp from him. But I can't reach him by an e-mail. I think,
he is working on his master. give him a break :-)
he is MIA, because I wrote my e-mail more than a month ago him, and He
doesn't answer that since.
a.
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